Who We Are

Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is a local unit of government
responsible for managing and protecting the water resources in
one of the largest and most heavily-used urban watersheds in Minnesota.

The watershed stretches 178-square miles from St. Bonifacius
to south Minneapolis and includes Lake Minnetonka, the
Minneapolis Chain of Lakes, Minnehaha Creek, and Minnehaha
Falls. It includes eight major creeks, 129 lakes, and thousands of
wetlands. Learn more about the watershed.

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Creek and Lake Cleanups

We had two great cleanups in 2017: one that focused on Minnehaha Creek in St. Louis Park and Hopkins and one that focused on Lake Hiawatha in Minneapolis. Volunteers cleaned up 1,134 pounds of trash along Minnehaha Creek and 1,233 pounds of trash around Lake Hiawatha. That's over a ton of trash collected and kept out of our waters!

New this year was a storm drain stenciling component. At both cleanups, groups went out to clean and stencil storm drains in surrounding neighborhoods.

Our sponsors provided prizes for the most trash collected per person, prizes for most interesting story/item, and prizes for collecting small items like little bits of plastic and cigarette butts.